‘Look into your own leaky office,’ Digvijay tells CAG
9 Nov 2012 7:40 AM IST
After Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge) Manish Tewari on Wednesday attacked Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai comments about the ‘brazenness’ with which government decisions were being taken, Congress leader Digvijay Singh heightened this attack a day-after.
At a conference in Delhi, Rai had said, ‘The brazenness (with which) decisions were being taken is absolutely appalling...’ And, in the context of the openness being forced on the executive by the RTI, he added, ‘….each one of us will be held accountable, we are conscious of that.’
Tewari rebutted Rai saying, ‘If he (Vinod Rai) talks about brazenness in decision-making and it refers to the time period of this particular government, I think it would be worth its while to recall that he (Rai) was part of the same government from 2004 to 2008. So, I guess that when he talks about brazenness, that paradigm equally applies across the board to everybody who is a part of the government.’
Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh also slammed Rai on Thursday asking why does he not stop leak of reports from his office, a day after the latter deprecated the ‘brazenness’ with which the decisions were being taken by the government. ‘The CAG keeps us giving knowledge (gyan). We thank him very much for this. But why does he not put a check on leak of reports from his office,’ added Singh.
Singh said that as far corruption is concerned, ‘we want that it should be wiped out. We are totally in favour of creating a strong mechanism to wipe out corruption and giving a constitutional status to Lokpal for this purpose.’
Singh, had a few days back, also raised the issue of report leaks from the CAG office. ‘CAG interim report again leaked. Would CAG instead of sermonising every one please look into his Leaky Office?’ he had tweeted.
The govt is under attack for alleged corruption in the allocation of 2G spectrum and coal blocks following leakage of relevant reports of CAG which said these had led to huge losses.
At a conference in Delhi, Rai had said, ‘The brazenness (with which) decisions were being taken is absolutely appalling...’ And, in the context of the openness being forced on the executive by the RTI, he added, ‘….each one of us will be held accountable, we are conscious of that.’
Tewari rebutted Rai saying, ‘If he (Vinod Rai) talks about brazenness in decision-making and it refers to the time period of this particular government, I think it would be worth its while to recall that he (Rai) was part of the same government from 2004 to 2008. So, I guess that when he talks about brazenness, that paradigm equally applies across the board to everybody who is a part of the government.’
Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh also slammed Rai on Thursday asking why does he not stop leak of reports from his office, a day after the latter deprecated the ‘brazenness’ with which the decisions were being taken by the government. ‘The CAG keeps us giving knowledge (gyan). We thank him very much for this. But why does he not put a check on leak of reports from his office,’ added Singh.
Singh said that as far corruption is concerned, ‘we want that it should be wiped out. We are totally in favour of creating a strong mechanism to wipe out corruption and giving a constitutional status to Lokpal for this purpose.’
Singh, had a few days back, also raised the issue of report leaks from the CAG office. ‘CAG interim report again leaked. Would CAG instead of sermonising every one please look into his Leaky Office?’ he had tweeted.
The govt is under attack for alleged corruption in the allocation of 2G spectrum and coal blocks following leakage of relevant reports of CAG which said these had led to huge losses.
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